Dismissal of panel delays Clav conspiracy trial
N E W O R L E A N S (UPI)—Another panel of prospective jurors, many of them claiming they read too much about the Clay L. Shaw conspiracy trial to serve, was excused yesterday delaying the start of testimony for at least another day.
By the end of the trial's 13th day, a second alternate juror was still needed before the prosecution could begin presenting testimony to back its charge that Shaw conspired to kill President John F. Kennedy.
A total of 1,104 persons had been questioned to pick the 12 jurors and one alternate juror. Another panel—the 14th summoned since the trial started
Jan. 21 was to be called at 10 a.m. today.
Attorneys had hoped to start testimony today, but the failure to find the second alternate meant the earliest formal testimony could begin would be tomorrow.
When the final panel of 12 men and two alternates is seated, Criminal Dist. Judge Edward A. Haggerty Jr. is expected to rule on two crucial motions involving two star defense witnesses.
Haggerty dismissed a prospective juror yesterday when the man said he knew Lee Harvey Oswald, who the Warren Commission report said was the unassisted assassin of Kennedy in downtown Dallas Nov. 22, 1963.
Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison has charged Shaw, 55, with conspiring with Oswald and former airline pilot David W. Ferrie to kill Kennedy.
The seating of the final alternate juror was to be followed by arguments on motions involving potential defense witnesses Hugh B. Exnicios and Mrs. Sandra McMaines.
Exnicios claims that testifying would break the client-lawyer relationship between him and Alvin Beauboeuf, a former friend of Ferrie. Exnicios has a tape recording the defense wants to introduce as evidence of an alleged bribe and threat to
Beauboeuf, another defense witness.
Beauboeuf has filed a legal action to waive the lawyer-client relationship between him and Exnicios. But the motion must still be heard unless the attorney drops it.
In another motion, Shaw's lawyers seek a court order to prevent Mrs. McMaines from being arrested if she comes to New Orleans from Des Moines, Iowa, to testify in the trial.
Mrs. McMaines is a former girl friend of Perry Raymond Russo, the state's star witness so far in the Shaw case. She said in Des Moines she feared for her life if she came to Louisiana.
Mrs. McMaines has denied Russo's claim that she also attended a 1963 New Orleans party at which he said he heard Oswald, Ferrie and Shaw plot to kill Kennedy.
Haggerty, at the request of Asst. Dist. Atty. Alvin Oser, yesterday issued a subpoena ordering Time Inc. to make color slides and prints of the Abraham Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination.
The request for the subpoena said a copy of the film is in Garrison's possession but he wants Time to make color slides of frames 200 through 320 and prints of 21 frames within that sequence.
Two soldiers ruled incapable to serve
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Two soldiers accused of mutiny at the Army's Presidio stockade were described yesterday as being impaired in their ability to follow military orders.
A court martial board was told Pvt. Louis Osccepinski of Florida, N.Y., and Lawrence Reidel of Crescent City, Calif., were legally sane but "markedly impaired" when it came to adhering to orders.
The testimony was presented by Maj. Terry J. Chamberlain, stockade psychiatrist. Chamberlain was called by the military counsel for the soldiers who were among 27 prisoners accused of staging a sit-down demonstration last fall.
Under questioning by Lt. Col. George Robinson, the law officer, Chamberlain said both
Hungate bill to challenge
In the event no candidate receives 40 per cent, each congressman would vote for the candidate who receives the greater number of votes in his congressional district. The House election would be limited to the top two candidates.
Hungate's resolution provides for election of the candidate with the most votes if he receives at least 40 per cent of the popular vote.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Rep. William Hungate, D-Mo., yesterday introduced a resolution to provide for direct election of the president and vice president. His resolution would abolish the electoral college and present "backroom political bargaining" over the presidency.
Animal toll high
WASHINGTON-The American Automobile Association (AAA) said yesterday U.S. motorists kill one million animals a day. "We kill more game with our cars than our hunters do with guns," the AAA said.
soldiers were legally sane but had sociopathic personalities and were inclined to go into rages.
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Chamberlain said he had treated Reidel every week since Oct. 1.
Chamberlain said Oszczepinski had threatened to put out his own eyes unless he was released from the stockade and discharged from the Army. He said Reidel once threw his food tray across the mess hall.
WASHINGTON—The Senate ignored dire warnings that it was voting for inflation and approved a 41 per cent pay raise for Congress yesterday after Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield demanded: "Are we going to be mice or men?"
The psychiatrist also testified both suffered increased fear and frustration when a fellow prisoner was fatally shot. The incident preceded the sit-down demonstration Oct. 14.
Senators rejected 47-34 a resolution offered by Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del., to kill the proposat to raise the annual salaries of members of Congress from $30,000 to $42,500.
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Chamberlain was preceded before the court martial by Capt. Robert S. Lamont, the 25-year-old stockade commander.
Lamont testified his ability to operate the prison was hampered by a lack of trained guards.
Lamont said prisoners complained guards pointed weapons at them. Lamont said an unspecified number of guards were relieved from their posts for improper performance and some for dereliction of duty.
Draft boards require notice
Men must report status
Both the machine-printed class schedules and the blue slips provided by the dean of men's office must be included in the report to the draft board. Ivers said.
Undergraduate men must again report their enrollment to their draft boards, if they hope to keep student deferments, said Kenneth Ivers, assistant dean of men.
The schedules will be enclosed in the fee statements mailed to students in the next week. The blue coupons are now available in all men's residence halls, fraternities and scholarship halls and at the Union information desk, the registrar's office and from Ivers in the 228 Strong Hall.
"The Selective Service Act," Ivers explained, "provides for deferment of undergraduate students upon request, to continue until the registrant completes the requirements of the baccalauare degree, fails to pursue satisfactorily a full-time course of instruction or becomes 24."
The University does not automatically send local boards notification of enrollment because authorities in the registrar's and dean of men's office believe that the men should be allowed the freedom
ways. Either they send a letter asking 'Are you still in school?' or they slap you with a 1-A," said Ivers.
to inform the board himself, Ivers said. Men then establish a working relationship with their local boards and are sure of their status, he stated.
Ivers warned against delaying in sending the board evidence of enrollment. "In about a month's time most boards will begin wondering about the registrants status. They react in one of two
Ivers asked that any men with trouble with their draft board or who are unsure of their obligations under the system, see him in his office in Strong Hall. Ivers handles only draft counseling for the dean of men.
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